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The Reporter. (Akron, Ohio), 2016-04-30

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| ting I ! K^'Hl 1 ^^BPlrilfflliff nJr JW> AJH^B 50 Cents ? ? lnEr^'^ik^^^EBKNNHB3Buffilliin!jl PerCopy j [vol XXXXVU.no. 30 APRIL 30,2016 THRU MAY 7,2016 SECTION A Email: reporfr14@juno.com | I : ' ^l3 INSIDE- ^ Commentary George E. Curry Poor People Are Discouraged From Voting See Page A2 Entertainment Billy Paul Singer Billy Paul Dies At 81 See Page A6 The Canton Connection See Page A8 Don't Ignore The HighBlood Pressure See Page Bt Check Out The Reporter Newspaper On The Web e thereporternewspaperonliDe.com or on FaceBook Editor Ellis News Briefs Ward 4 Meeting AKRON, OH ? Councilman Russ Neal will host the Ward 4 meeting Tuesday, May 2nd, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lawton Street Community Center. Topics of discussion will be how to start a block club as well as how to form stronger collaboration between existing block clubs. Mr. Angelo Johnson, President of the Greater West Akron Council of Block Clubs will be the guest speaker as well as Officer Rodney Brock of the Akron Police Department. Also Rachel Roukey, City of Akron Lock 3, will share info on the Ward 4 Neighborhood Summer Art Celebration scheduled for Thursday, June 23. For more info please call (330) 212-3034. Liquor Permit Application Draws Objection City Council unanimously supported a resolution opposing a liquor permit for the Dollar General Store at 705 South Arlington Street. The application is pending before the Ohio Division of Liquor Control and, while Council may object to it, Council has no say in whether or not the application is granted or denied. Council also passed a resolution urging the United States Congress to conduct confirmation hearings for President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Constitution of the United States obliges Congress to confirm any qualified nominee. llllllil 8 08805 93333 a Report: African Americans, Latinos, Low-Income Americans Pay Up To Three Times More Than Others For Household Energy WASHINGTON, DC?An "energy burden" review of 48 major U.S. metropolitan areas finds that low-income households devote up to three times as much income to energy costs as do other, higherincome households. The new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) and the Energy Efficiency for All (EEFA) coalition also finds that African-American and Latino households spend disproportionate amounts of their income on energy and that more energy efficiency measures would help close the gap by at least one-third. Key findings from "Lifting the High Energy Burdens in America's Largest Cities: How Energy Efficiency Can Improve Low-Income and Underserved Communities" (www.aceee.oig/pres s/2016/04/report-energy-burden-low-income)include the following: * On average, low-income households pay 7.2 percent of household income on utilities - more than three times the amount that higher income households pay (2.3 percent). * Energy burdens were found to be greatest for low-income households in the following 10 major cities: Memphis (13.2 percent of income), Birmingham (10.9 percent), Atlanta (10.2 percent), New Orleans (9.8 percent), Providence (9.5 percent), Pittsburgh (9.4 percent), Dallas (8.8 percent), Philadelphia (8.8 percent), Kansas City (8.5 percent), and Cleveland (8.5 percent). * For African-American households, the cities with the greatest energy burdens were: Memphis, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Kansas City, Birmingham, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Atlanta. * Latino households experience the greatest energy burdens in: Memphis, Providence, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Atlanta, Birmingham, Phoenix, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Detroit. * If low-income housing stock were brought up to the efficiency level of the average US home, this would eliminate 35 percent of the average low-income energy burden of lowincome households. For AfricanAmerican and Latino households, 42 percent and 68 percent of the excess energy burden, respectively, would be eliminated. * The five cities with the lowest median energy burdens for all households were San Francisco (1.4 percent), San Jose (1.8 percent), Seattle (2.1 percent), Washington, DC (2.1 percent), and San Diego (2.3 percent). Jacqueline Patterson, director. Environmental and Climate Justice Program, NAACP, said: "For the communities we serve who are disproportionately plagued by pollution from energy production, for families who have to make choices between proper nutrition and keeping the lights on, and for unemployed persons for whom retrofitting and weatherization may provide a pathway out of pgverly, this j Continued to Page A3 / NC100BW 25th Woman Of Vision Scholarship Luncheon MAYFIELD HTS, OH ?The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Greater Cleveland Chapter held its 25th Woman of Vision Scholarship Luncheon on Saturday, April 2nd, 2016. (L-R) President Elizabeth A. Jones; Scholarship recipient Miracle Freckleton; Scholarship recipient Chardae Woods; Scholarship recipient Diamond LaChae King; Scholarship Committee Member & Treasurer Sherdina Williams; and 1st Vice President Marian B. Wallace. (Not pictured scholarship recipient Mikala Mahoney). For story and more photos, see PagcA7. Photo by Eric Benson Clinton, Trump Easily Win Victory Northeastern Primary Contests (Via MSN News) - Donald Trump swept all five Republican primaries Tuesday, a commanding showing across the Northeast that kept the Republican front-runner on his narrow path to the GOP nomination. His rout was a blow to rivals who are running out of ways to stop the brash billionaire. Hillary Clinton was dominant in Democratic contests in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. She ceded Rhode Island to rival Bemie Sanders, and they were locked in a close race in Connecticut. With her three victories, Clinton now has 88 percent of the delegates she needs to become the first woman nominated by a major party. She's already increasingly looking past Sanders, even as the Vermont senator vows to stay in the race until primary voting ends in June. "We will unify our party to win this election and build an America where we can all rise together," Clinton declared during a victory rally in Philadelphia, the city where Democrats will gather for their national convention in July. Sanders spent Tuesday campaigning in West Virginia, where he drew several thousand people to a lively evening rally. He urged his supporters to recognize that they are "powerful people if you choose to exercise Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump that power." Still, there were some signs that Sanders' campaign was coming to grips with his difficult position. Top aide Tad Devine said that after Tuesday's results were known, "we'll decide what we're going to do going forward." Summit County Clerk of Courts Sandra Kurt Adds Saturday Hours to Better Accommodate Customers AKRON, OH?Effective Saturday, May 7,2016, Summit County Clerk of Courts Sandra Kurt's Title Bureau, Northfield Branch, located at 10333 Northfield Road, Suite 152 in Northfield Village, will add Saturday hours of operation, 8:00 a.m. to 11:45 am. Exceptions are made on legal holidays.The hours of operation are being added to better accommodate residents in need of title and passport services. The BMV adjacent in the same building also has office hours on Saturday mornings. Adding Saturday hours at the Title Bureau allows residents to complete all their business in one visit. "Saturday morning is often the only time that working folks have to handle these necessary tasks," said Sandra Kurt, Summit County Clerk of Courts, "Opening our Northfield Title Bureau on Saturday mornings will make it easier for people to get these errands done without having to take time off wotk or make multiple trips to the same location." Don't Drink & Drive Cleveland Agrees To Pay Family Of Tamir Rice $6 Million EURweb.com ? The city of Cleveland on Monday reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death ofTamir Rice, the 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center. An order filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland said the city will pay out $3 million this year and $3 million in 2017, according to ABC News. There was no admission of wrongdoing in the settlement. Family attorney Subodh Chandra called the settlement historic but added: "The resolution is nothing to celebrate because a 12-year-old child needlessly lost his life." The wrongful death suit was filed by Rice's family and estate against the city, the officers and the dispatchers who were involved. The suit alleges that they all acted recklessly when Tamir Rice was confronted on Nov. 22,2014. Video of the encounter shows a cruiser skidding to a stop and rookie patrolman Timothy Loehmann firing within two seconds of opening the car door. Tamir, who lived across the street from the rec center and played there almost every day, wasn't given first aid until about four minutes later, ' when an FBI agent trained as a para medic arrived. The boy died the next day. A grand jury declined to bring charges against the officers, and a federal civil rights investigation is pending. Tamir's estate has been assigned $5.5 million of the settlement amount A Cuyahoga County probate judgf will decide how the amount will Be divided. Samaria Rice, Tamir's mother* will receive $250,000. Claims againsi Tamir's estate account for the remain1 ing $250,000. Tamir's father, Leonard Warner, was dismissed in February as a party to the lawsuit. The settlement comes two years after the city settled another lawsuit connected to the killings of two unarmed black people in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire at the end of a 2012 car chase. Cleveland settled a lawsuit brought by the victims' families for a total of $3 million. I amir Rice, age 12 City Of Akron Receives Fire Truck From Goodyear Tire & ? Rubber Company AKRON, OH ? Mayor Daniel Horrigan, along with Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Charles Brown, Akron Fire Chief Ed Hiltbrand and Deputy Fire Chief Richard Vober received a 2005 Freightliner Foam Engine/Pump from the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company on Tuesday, April 26 at the company headquarters located at 200 Innovation Way. Goodyear representatives in attendance included Chief Financial Officer Laura Thompson, Director of Global Security Mike Peterson and Director of Community Engagement Allison White. The fire truck flows 1,250 gallons of water per minute and weighs in at 31,440 gross weight. Goodyear also donating a large quantity of foam. City Of Cuyahoga Falls To Host Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo Exhibit COLUMBUS, OH ? Mayor Don Walters lfproud to announce that the City of Cuyahoga Falls, in partnership with the Fair Housing Advocates Association (FHAA), will be hosting its 2nd annual Fair Housing Month awareness event on Thursday, May 5,2016, from 6-8 p.m. The event will be held at the Natatorium (Cuyahoga Room) and is free and open to all citizens.Bernard Kleina, civil rights activist and photographer of Dr. Martin Luther Ring, Jr. will speak and present a historic photo exhibit. The exhibit includes a small, but revealing snapshot of Dr. Martin Luther King's visits and marches to secure fair housing in Chicago. It portrays both the adversity and the commitment that the people of Chicago faced obtaining open housing. The Fair Housing Act was passed on April 11,1968, exactly one week after Dr. King was assassinated."1 am honored to have Mr. Kleina share his renowned, historical photos with the City of Cuyahoga Falls," stated Mayor Don Walters "We are committed to fair housing efforts and look forward to the exhibit and presentation."In 1965, Kleina joined the Civil Rights Movement by heeding the call for clergy to join the march in the Chi cago Freedom Movement and the movements in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Kleina will share his experience as an activist and take you on a historic photo journey documenting this historic experience. Mr. Kleina's photography collection is featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. For more information, please contact Kelli Crawford-Smith, CDBG/Eotitlement Administrator at (330) 971 - 8140 or CrawfordSmith@cityofcf.coni.Be Accountable! Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

| ting I ! K^'Hl 1 ^^BPlrilfflliff nJr JW> AJH^B 50 Cents ? ? lnEr^'^ik^^^EBKNNHB3Buffilliin!jl PerCopy j [vol XXXXVU.no. 30 APRIL 30,2016 THRU MAY 7,2016 SECTION A Email: reporfr14@juno.com | I : ' ^l3 INSIDE- ^ Commentary George E. Curry Poor People Are Discouraged From Voting See Page A2 Entertainment Billy Paul Singer Billy Paul Dies At 81 See Page A6 The Canton Connection See Page A8 Don't Ignore The HighBlood Pressure See Page Bt Check Out The Reporter Newspaper On The Web e thereporternewspaperonliDe.com or on FaceBook Editor Ellis News Briefs Ward 4 Meeting AKRON, OH ? Councilman Russ Neal will host the Ward 4 meeting Tuesday, May 2nd, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lawton Street Community Center. Topics of discussion will be how to start a block club as well as how to form stronger collaboration between existing block clubs. Mr. Angelo Johnson, President of the Greater West Akron Council of Block Clubs will be the guest speaker as well as Officer Rodney Brock of the Akron Police Department. Also Rachel Roukey, City of Akron Lock 3, will share info on the Ward 4 Neighborhood Summer Art Celebration scheduled for Thursday, June 23. For more info please call (330) 212-3034. Liquor Permit Application Draws Objection City Council unanimously supported a resolution opposing a liquor permit for the Dollar General Store at 705 South Arlington Street. The application is pending before the Ohio Division of Liquor Control and, while Council may object to it, Council has no say in whether or not the application is granted or denied. Council also passed a resolution urging the United States Congress to conduct confirmation hearings for President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Constitution of the United States obliges Congress to confirm any qualified nominee. llllllil 8 08805 93333 a Report: African Americans, Latinos, Low-Income Americans Pay Up To Three Times More Than Others For Household Energy WASHINGTON, DC?An "energy burden" review of 48 major U.S. metropolitan areas finds that low-income households devote up to three times as much income to energy costs as do other, higherincome households. The new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) and the Energy Efficiency for All (EEFA) coalition also finds that African-American and Latino households spend disproportionate amounts of their income on energy and that more energy efficiency measures would help close the gap by at least one-third. Key findings from "Lifting the High Energy Burdens in America's Largest Cities: How Energy Efficiency Can Improve Low-Income and Underserved Communities" (www.aceee.oig/pres s/2016/04/report-energy-burden-low-income)include the following: * On average, low-income households pay 7.2 percent of household income on utilities - more than three times the amount that higher income households pay (2.3 percent). * Energy burdens were found to be greatest for low-income households in the following 10 major cities: Memphis (13.2 percent of income), Birmingham (10.9 percent), Atlanta (10.2 percent), New Orleans (9.8 percent), Providence (9.5 percent), Pittsburgh (9.4 percent), Dallas (8.8 percent), Philadelphia (8.8 percent), Kansas City (8.5 percent), and Cleveland (8.5 percent). * For African-American households, the cities with the greatest energy burdens were: Memphis, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Kansas City, Birmingham, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Atlanta. * Latino households experience the greatest energy burdens in: Memphis, Providence, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Atlanta, Birmingham, Phoenix, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Detroit. * If low-income housing stock were brought up to the efficiency level of the average US home, this would eliminate 35 percent of the average low-income energy burden of lowincome households. For AfricanAmerican and Latino households, 42 percent and 68 percent of the excess energy burden, respectively, would be eliminated. * The five cities with the lowest median energy burdens for all households were San Francisco (1.4 percent), San Jose (1.8 percent), Seattle (2.1 percent), Washington, DC (2.1 percent), and San Diego (2.3 percent). Jacqueline Patterson, director. Environmental and Climate Justice Program, NAACP, said: "For the communities we serve who are disproportionately plagued by pollution from energy production, for families who have to make choices between proper nutrition and keeping the lights on, and for unemployed persons for whom retrofitting and weatherization may provide a pathway out of pgverly, this j Continued to Page A3 / NC100BW 25th Woman Of Vision Scholarship Luncheon MAYFIELD HTS, OH ?The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Greater Cleveland Chapter held its 25th Woman of Vision Scholarship Luncheon on Saturday, April 2nd, 2016. (L-R) President Elizabeth A. Jones; Scholarship recipient Miracle Freckleton; Scholarship recipient Chardae Woods; Scholarship recipient Diamond LaChae King; Scholarship Committee Member & Treasurer Sherdina Williams; and 1st Vice President Marian B. Wallace. (Not pictured scholarship recipient Mikala Mahoney). For story and more photos, see PagcA7. Photo by Eric Benson Clinton, Trump Easily Win Victory Northeastern Primary Contests (Via MSN News) - Donald Trump swept all five Republican primaries Tuesday, a commanding showing across the Northeast that kept the Republican front-runner on his narrow path to the GOP nomination. His rout was a blow to rivals who are running out of ways to stop the brash billionaire. Hillary Clinton was dominant in Democratic contests in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. She ceded Rhode Island to rival Bemie Sanders, and they were locked in a close race in Connecticut. With her three victories, Clinton now has 88 percent of the delegates she needs to become the first woman nominated by a major party. She's already increasingly looking past Sanders, even as the Vermont senator vows to stay in the race until primary voting ends in June. "We will unify our party to win this election and build an America where we can all rise together," Clinton declared during a victory rally in Philadelphia, the city where Democrats will gather for their national convention in July. Sanders spent Tuesday campaigning in West Virginia, where he drew several thousand people to a lively evening rally. He urged his supporters to recognize that they are "powerful people if you choose to exercise Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump that power." Still, there were some signs that Sanders' campaign was coming to grips with his difficult position. Top aide Tad Devine said that after Tuesday's results were known, "we'll decide what we're going to do going forward." Summit County Clerk of Courts Sandra Kurt Adds Saturday Hours to Better Accommodate Customers AKRON, OH?Effective Saturday, May 7,2016, Summit County Clerk of Courts Sandra Kurt's Title Bureau, Northfield Branch, located at 10333 Northfield Road, Suite 152 in Northfield Village, will add Saturday hours of operation, 8:00 a.m. to 11:45 am. Exceptions are made on legal holidays.The hours of operation are being added to better accommodate residents in need of title and passport services. The BMV adjacent in the same building also has office hours on Saturday mornings. Adding Saturday hours at the Title Bureau allows residents to complete all their business in one visit. "Saturday morning is often the only time that working folks have to handle these necessary tasks," said Sandra Kurt, Summit County Clerk of Courts, "Opening our Northfield Title Bureau on Saturday mornings will make it easier for people to get these errands done without having to take time off wotk or make multiple trips to the same location." Don't Drink & Drive Cleveland Agrees To Pay Family Of Tamir Rice $6 Million EURweb.com ? The city of Cleveland on Monday reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death ofTamir Rice, the 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center. An order filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland said the city will pay out $3 million this year and $3 million in 2017, according to ABC News. There was no admission of wrongdoing in the settlement. Family attorney Subodh Chandra called the settlement historic but added: "The resolution is nothing to celebrate because a 12-year-old child needlessly lost his life." The wrongful death suit was filed by Rice's family and estate against the city, the officers and the dispatchers who were involved. The suit alleges that they all acted recklessly when Tamir Rice was confronted on Nov. 22,2014. Video of the encounter shows a cruiser skidding to a stop and rookie patrolman Timothy Loehmann firing within two seconds of opening the car door. Tamir, who lived across the street from the rec center and played there almost every day, wasn't given first aid until about four minutes later, ' when an FBI agent trained as a para medic arrived. The boy died the next day. A grand jury declined to bring charges against the officers, and a federal civil rights investigation is pending. Tamir's estate has been assigned $5.5 million of the settlement amount A Cuyahoga County probate judgf will decide how the amount will Be divided. Samaria Rice, Tamir's mother* will receive $250,000. Claims againsi Tamir's estate account for the remain1 ing $250,000. Tamir's father, Leonard Warner, was dismissed in February as a party to the lawsuit. The settlement comes two years after the city settled another lawsuit connected to the killings of two unarmed black people in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire at the end of a 2012 car chase. Cleveland settled a lawsuit brought by the victims' families for a total of $3 million. I amir Rice, age 12 City Of Akron Receives Fire Truck From Goodyear Tire & ? Rubber Company AKRON, OH ? Mayor Daniel Horrigan, along with Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Charles Brown, Akron Fire Chief Ed Hiltbrand and Deputy Fire Chief Richard Vober received a 2005 Freightliner Foam Engine/Pump from the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company on Tuesday, April 26 at the company headquarters located at 200 Innovation Way. Goodyear representatives in attendance included Chief Financial Officer Laura Thompson, Director of Global Security Mike Peterson and Director of Community Engagement Allison White. The fire truck flows 1,250 gallons of water per minute and weighs in at 31,440 gross weight. Goodyear also donating a large quantity of foam. City Of Cuyahoga Falls To Host Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo Exhibit COLUMBUS, OH ? Mayor Don Walters lfproud to announce that the City of Cuyahoga Falls, in partnership with the Fair Housing Advocates Association (FHAA), will be hosting its 2nd annual Fair Housing Month awareness event on Thursday, May 5,2016, from 6-8 p.m. The event will be held at the Natatorium (Cuyahoga Room) and is free and open to all citizens.Bernard Kleina, civil rights activist and photographer of Dr. Martin Luther Ring, Jr. will speak and present a historic photo exhibit. The exhibit includes a small, but revealing snapshot of Dr. Martin Luther King's visits and marches to secure fair housing in Chicago. It portrays both the adversity and the commitment that the people of Chicago faced obtaining open housing. The Fair Housing Act was passed on April 11,1968, exactly one week after Dr. King was assassinated."1 am honored to have Mr. Kleina share his renowned, historical photos with the City of Cuyahoga Falls," stated Mayor Don Walters "We are committed to fair housing efforts and look forward to the exhibit and presentation."In 1965, Kleina joined the Civil Rights Movement by heeding the call for clergy to join the march in the Chi cago Freedom Movement and the movements in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Kleina will share his experience as an activist and take you on a historic photo journey documenting this historic experience. Mr. Kleina's photography collection is featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. For more information, please contact Kelli Crawford-Smith, CDBG/Eotitlement Administrator at (330) 971 - 8140 or CrawfordSmith@cityofcf.coni.Be Accountable! Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.